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House GOP of Mixed Minds on Next Move

House Republicans offered a variety of tactics on how they should respond if the Senate passes a federal spending plan that maintains funding for the health-care law as expected Friday afternoon.

The legislation, if approved, will go back to the House where the health cuts were originally conceived. Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to avoid a partial shutdown of the federal government and the legislation also would keep the government operating until mid-December. On Friday it wasn’t clear how Republicans and Democrats would avoid such a spectacle, which both parties have said they want to avoid.